Highly anticipated Port Eliot Festival has announced its first wave of acts for this year’s event.

Those gracing us with their presence at the vibrant St German’s festival include singer-songwriter, activist and author Billy Bragg, award-winning actress Teri Hatcher, and side-splitting comedian Shappi Khorsandi.

Running from July 26 until July 29, this year is another not to be missed.

Port Eliot (Image: Michael Bowles)

Port Eliot Festival co-director, Louis Eliot, said, “This is just the start; an early smattering of the artists, bands, wordsmiths, chefs, poets and uncategorisable characters that you already love or soon will.

“It’s tricky to pick out personal highlights, but the prospect of seeing Brian Patten alongside Hollie McNish on our poetry stage, in only its second year, is a great one.

“We are excited to announce the debut of the Fashion Foundation, the pocket Port Eliot that is Wildlings Wood and the biggest opening day of music since we began fifteen years ago. The build-up starts now – jump in, get planning and see you in Cornwall in July.”

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi

This year will see another exciting mix live music, food, survival skills, wellness workshops, culture, poetry and much more.

This year, chefs including Anna Jones, Jack Stein and Russell Norman will make the House’s Georgian Big Kitchen their own and head outside to the Open Fire to create flavours, set trends, share techniques and reveal the workings of some of the country’s great kitchens.

Additionally, a new Port Eliot restaurant will sit right at the front of the house, and Devon’s Oyster Shack will make a corner of the Walled Garden its own, serving fresh, locally-sourced and sustainable rock oysters, Salcombe crab and lobster plus local ‘catch of the day’ fish.

Jack Stein

Historic rooms, kitchens and nooks in the house will become restaurants, tea rooms, galleries and screening rooms, while workshops will take place from early morning until end of day, offering late-night astronomy walks and talks, wild swimming, axe-throwing and archery.

Port Eliot Festival sprang from the remains of the Elephant Fayre, a mildly revolutionary and fondly remembered festival from another age (or the 1980s).